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driving in the united states is the safest in the world. one of the greatest threats on the road today is distracted driving. anyone using a cell phone a texting while driving or taking their eyes off the road for even a second is a menace to others. we are working hard to raise awareness about this problem and take direct actions to combat it. our research shows in 2008 nearly 6,000 people died in crashes involving a distracted or inattentive driver and more than half a million were injured. that is unacceptable. we are greiling kurds to see this year's roadmap now includes destructed driving for the first time is one of its key measures of traffic safety for each state. let me highlight howie atia tr addressing this problem. first for presidential action. through executive order on september 30th president obama directed federal employees not to engage in texting while driving a government owned vehicles when using government supplied electronic equipment or while driving privately owned vehicles on official government business. the depar
driving in the united states is the safest in the world. one of the greatest threats on the road today is distracted driving. anyone using a cell phone a texting while driving or taking their eyes off the road for even a second is a menace to others. we are working hard to raise awareness about this problem and take direct actions to combat it. our research shows in 2008 nearly 6,000 people died in crashes involving a distracted or inattentive driver and more than half a million were injured....
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we represent law enforcement throughout the united states. this is a critical issue, no matter what size your agency is. if you are a large agency like new york or if you are a one-man police department, the ability to share information and communicate that information in a timely fashion is critical to public safety. we support wholly the efforts to remove the d-block from the auction and to provide that for public safety. what we need to see is leadership, here in washington. you have heard or you will hear from the public safety people who say how important this is that we are able to communicate and not just law enforcement to law enforcement but law enforcement talking to fire services to emergency services people. everyone must be able to communicate. they must be able to talk and send data between each other and it's very important that the people in washington, our leaders and elected officials take a leadership position and provide us with the tools so we can make our communities at home safe. >> thank you, chief lane. i introduce ch
we represent law enforcement throughout the united states. this is a critical issue, no matter what size your agency is. if you are a large agency like new york or if you are a one-man police department, the ability to share information and communicate that information in a timely fashion is critical to public safety. we support wholly the efforts to remove the d-block from the auction and to provide that for public safety. what we need to see is leadership, here in washington. you have heard...
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this is the united states of america. mr. chairman, i have three policy changes for this committee to consider. in the new authorization. first, we must agree upon a bold new vision and make the cultural shift in the way we do transportation. a vision an american public can invest in and believe in and have passenger rail that connects america much like the eisenhower era highway system did. we must do today what our parents and our grandparents did for us. invest in a new vision. reform the current program and revolutionize the way we do transportation policy and funding. second, we must reduce the time it takes to deliver a rail project in this country. 20 years in new starts is just too long. we need to get our projects delivered in 3 to 5 years. this is not environmental stream lining as some would like to call it. it's process delivery. agencies cannot just sit on projects. we need to create -- we do not need to create an oversight office. we just need to get the projects out. we don't need to open up the nipa process to
this is the united states of america. mr. chairman, i have three policy changes for this committee to consider. in the new authorization. first, we must agree upon a bold new vision and make the cultural shift in the way we do transportation. a vision an american public can invest in and believe in and have passenger rail that connects america much like the eisenhower era highway system did. we must do today what our parents and our grandparents did for us. invest in a new vision. reform the...
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as the report said, we sold about 10 million vehicles in the united states. last year. people think we'll sell about 11 million this year, 11.5 million. about five years ago the industry sold 17 million vehicles. so it's down 40%. you look at all the factories that have closed all the people who have lost their jobs, the grants that have... the brands that have gone away and you can see things are a lot smaller here. >> ifill: who are the big three's biggest competitors now? obviously china is coming up big. >> if you look at it on a global basis, you absolutely would say china. i think that's a huge surprise to a lot of people. i remember maybe ten years ago or 20 years ago that volkswagen was actually the biggest brand in china. then there were joint ventures with other car companies. now you're seeing the chinese market itself sort of breed its own car makers. some of them are here at the detroit show. i went for a walk on the show floor yesterday. i walked past ford. i walked right into a display for a chinese company called byd or build your dreams. it was showing
as the report said, we sold about 10 million vehicles in the united states. last year. people think we'll sell about 11 million this year, 11.5 million. about five years ago the industry sold 17 million vehicles. so it's down 40%. you look at all the factories that have closed all the people who have lost their jobs, the grants that have... the brands that have gone away and you can see things are a lot smaller here. >> ifill: who are the big three's biggest competitors now? obviously...